so I'm guessing mine isn't the only newer laptop whose trackpad routinely craps out forcing me to have to plug in a fucking mouse when I'm out traveling with it.

I don't do that. I'll only buy a laptop if it has a clit mouse, and if it has a touchpad too, I disable the motherfucker and lament both the space it takes up and the fact that it probably added 40 bucks to the price of the machine.

so I'm guessing mine isn't the only newer laptop whose trackpad routinely craps out forcing me to have to plug in a fucking mouse when I'm out traveling with it.

I don't do that. I'll only buy a laptop if it has a clit mouse, and if it has a touchpad too, I disable the motherfucker and lament both the space it takes up and the fact that it probably added 40 bucks to the price of the machine.

Have you ever had/extensively used a Mac laptop? I too used to hate all trackpads until I got my MacBook Pro for school. That said, there are still applications it falls short in, but if all the trackpads before had been like this one, then I don't think I would have ever developed the loathing I did.

I gave up on Homestuck a couple weeks ago, it's gotten too complicated for no other reason than to be complicated._________________Hangman, hangman, hold it a little while, I think I see my brother coming, riding many a mile.

I had no problem getting through El Goonish Shive but I couldn't get very far at all through Homestuck.

Like, I tapped out at the random life-size clown doll sitting on the sofa for no apparent reason. Now it's the only thing I remember. That and a really abysmal sounding equipping system._________________Samsally the GrayAce

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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 4:55 am Post subject:

I still really like El Goonish Shive! Though yes, I wish there were jumping on points. The early art is so bad._________________Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael

Hah, I actually really enjoy going back to the beginning of things like El Goonish Shive and Questionable Content (and of course, Sinfest) and watching the cartoonist grow in their art as well as their storytelling.

It's inspiring a lot of times. Like, I get to see them start off worse than I am now, then watch 'em steadily blow me out of the water. It makes me think if I work hard enough I could get there some day._________________Samsally the GrayAce

I think I've probably read the entirety of El Goonish Shive about three times overall just from going back and looking at random old chapters.

Thinking back, I think I actually found it via someone's avatar.
Someone in this thread.
Someone who will remain nameless
References to demonic ducks and crazy inventions that I had encountered irl suddenly made sense.

I stopped reading Homestuck around the part where things started getting really cool. It's not that I couldn't get into it, it's that I didn't have the time. Also, I lost my place in it and had some slight difficulty navigating the archives._________________butts

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Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:10 am Post subject:

Kiss kiss._________________Before God created Las he pondered on all the aspects a woman might have, he considered which ones would look good super-inflated and which ones to leave alone.
After much deliberation he gave her a giant comfort zone. - Michael

Partly I just like the pointing device to be accessible at the same time and place as the keyboard.

Ok, I'm not trying to convert you, but I don't quite follow you here. the position of my right hand is different with a trackpad vs. mouse, but wither way I'm still left with only one hand on the keyboard.

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EGS lost me at around the beginning of that superhero arc. Really it lost me earlier than that, but I have a bad habit of needing to know how the story ends, which keeps me reading things long after I've stopped having fun. I don't know, the comic just stopped doing anything for me, like College Roomies From Hell._________________“Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation”
yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.